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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
I haven't been to many US cities, but if this is true it doesn't inspire me to travel there.
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It’s not. Not remotely.
I grew up in Calgary and live in a major US city in the northeast. Most Canadians who haven’t lived in the US can’t appreciate how remote Canada feels to Americans, how far north, how isolated, etc. For someone who grew up in the northeast corridor of the US, the Canadian prairies may as well be the dark side of the moon.
That’s true culturally as well as geographically. Whatever criticisms Canadians may have of the US — and many are warranted — it’s a place with a powerful identity and sense of history. I can see a US player feeling a little lost in a place like Calgary very easily.
Finally, wealthy American cities are a pleasure to live in — culturally dynamic, diverse, vibrant and full of amenities. Columbus is small, but it’s a great, lively town, very young, full of history, terrific architecture and major civic investment. So let’s please drop this ‘Calgary is a better city’ nonsense. To you, maybe. Not to him. And that’s totally justified.
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